...Twitter.
Thank you to the lovely Caron for tagging me with this meme. I especially like her description of me as: "the lovely book loving, F1 loving, Lewis Hamilton loathing Kate"
When did you join Twitter?
On the 4th of March 2007. Yes. I know! Having read back on my old blog for March 2007 it turns out I joined Twitter before I joined Facebook. Now that's just scary.
Why did you join Twitter?
I had a few blogging friends who joined it at the same time, namely Keris, Caroline and Soraya. A couple of others like Jamaila joined a couple of months later. I thought it seemed like an interesting thing. It has become a fascinating thing.
Who is/was your first or oldest follower? Who did you follow first? Tell me all about them.
The first people I followed were/are:
Keris
EmLah
DianeShipley
Sorayaleila
Caroline_S
The first people to follow me were/are:
Keris
EmLah
ClaireAllan
DianeShipley
Caroline_S
(this is what happens when you're an early adopter!)
Do you have any celebrities following you, or have you ever had a DM from a celeb?
I have a couple of celebrity followers. Like a few of the early adopters, I'm followed by Stephen Fry (although I very much doubt he reads my tweets). I'm also followed by Jason Bradbury (from the Gadget Show), Meg Cabot (another early adopter bonus), Katie Fforde (one of my favourite authors), and Phill Jupitus (who sent me a DM saying he loved my use of the word "ditsy" in my Twitter profile and promptly followed me).
As for DM's, I've had a few from the above mentioned fabulous people, plus Suzi Perry has sent me a few (she tends to reply to messages via DM, unlike most other celebs I follow who often reply in the main feed). I also had a couple from Nelson Piquet Jr. after the events of last year.
If you could follow anyone not on Twitter – alive, dead, real or fictional – on Twitter, who would it be?
Hmmm. That's a tough one. There's quite a few fictional characters that I would love to see on Twitter, but to be honest none of them are actually the kind of people that would use Twitter! I do sometimes wonder what my ex Jamie would have made of it all. I suspect he'd have introduced me to it!
Which came first? Twitter or blog?
Oh the blog, the blog. First ever blog post
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I now apparently have to tag a few other people. I shall go with the usual suspects, Keris, Clover and Caroline. Plus Kayels and Jay to get some Twitter-first people in there too!
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Sunday, 3 October 2010
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
This day...
...two years ago was crap.
This day last year was pretty cool.
This day this year was bloody brilliant.
Firstlymy Anthony's visor finally arrived (it got lost in the post and bounced back to Monaco)
Then a bit later on Jane came up to me and said "A lady's just walked in who looks exactly like Michaela Strachan, but it can't be her, can it?"
But it was.
And she was lovely.
And we all ended up so totally giggly and star-struck that it's almost unimaginable. (we nearly had to send Richie-Fingers upstairs to have a little lie down).
Then when it was time to go home my very lovely man came and picked me up so I didn't have to walk the mean streets of Wolverhampton with his precious visor.
At home there was a large parcel under the doormat that turned out to be my prize from Lovely Caroline. I won a signed limited edition copy of The Equivoque Principle by Darren Craske that I am really really looking forward to reading.
So today was a very very good day and I enjoyed myself very very much.
Thank you universe for lovely friends and lovely people and meeting childhood idols and discovering they're just as lovely as you thought they were.
(apologies for the overuse of the word lovely in this post. But it is lovely and I do love it)
This day last year was pretty cool.
This day this year was bloody brilliant.
Firstly
Then a bit later on Jane came up to me and said "A lady's just walked in who looks exactly like Michaela Strachan, but it can't be her, can it?"
But it was.
And she was lovely.
And we all ended up so totally giggly and star-struck that it's almost unimaginable. (we nearly had to send Richie-Fingers upstairs to have a little lie down).
Then when it was time to go home my very lovely man came and picked me up so I didn't have to walk the mean streets of Wolverhampton with his precious visor.
At home there was a large parcel under the doormat that turned out to be my prize from Lovely Caroline. I won a signed limited edition copy of The Equivoque Principle by Darren Craske that I am really really looking forward to reading.
So today was a very very good day and I enjoyed myself very very much.
Thank you universe for lovely friends and lovely people and meeting childhood idols and discovering they're just as lovely as you thought they were.
(apologies for the overuse of the word lovely in this post. But it is lovely and I do love it)
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Once again...
...Richie Fingers made me laugh today.
There I am reserving a copy of The Magical Adventures of the Wishing Chair for a customer and vaguely aware that there is a lady waiting behind him.
The lady waiting was holding a gorgeous bouquet of flowers.
Flowers for me.
Flowers with a card...
...and what did Richie say?
"Does your Anthony know that you're getting flowers from a bloke called Nelson?"
When I stopped going scarlet and gasping for air I explained a little.
Then Richie took over the book reservation for me, explaining to the customer "she just got flowers from a F1 driver, yeah."
There I am reserving a copy of The Magical Adventures of the Wishing Chair for a customer and vaguely aware that there is a lady waiting behind him.
The lady waiting was holding a gorgeous bouquet of flowers.
Flowers for me.
Flowers with a card...
...and what did Richie say?
"Does your Anthony know that you're getting flowers from a bloke called Nelson?"
When I stopped going scarlet and gasping for air I explained a little.
Then Richie took over the book reservation for me, explaining to the customer "she just got flowers from a F1 driver, yeah."
Saturday, 4 July 2009
As you all know...
...I'm a big fan of Twitter. (When used responsibly that is, anyone who just tweets rubbish at me will be blocked, k thanx bai).
Recently, as well as the collection of FakeF1 Drivers a few real ones have joined in the fun.
Nelson Piquet Jr joined back on the 5th of June and started quite a few people learning Portuguese (although he dual tweets in English too) and made a lot of people smile with his photographs.
Then Rubens Barrichello turned up on the 23rd of June (possibly converted by Nelson?) and also posted amusing photographs (especially this one).
Recently Nelson decided to give away a signed visor to one of his followers if he reached 20,000 followers before the German GP.
On Friday he hit that target and asked people to tweet him what they would do with the visor if they won it.
So I sent him a message that said:
@NelsonPiquet I'll give the visor to my fiance, in exchange for the engagement ring he's been promising me for the last 6 months.
(Quite a few of my Twitter buddies loved it, but I didn't mention it to Anthony...)
The competition closed tonight, and then I got this tweet...
@Petronella won the visor! @pedrorq and @D_Broka, the other 2 prizes!
OH. MY. GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*ahem*
So I'm shaking like crazy and then Anthony wanders in.
Me "So guess what, I won @NelsonPiquet's visor!" Him "Brilliant!" Me "But you should see what won it for me" Him *reads screen* silence...!
(He still hasn't said anything, he's gone out for a smoke...) He's come back in...
Him: "Well then. I guess we're going to the Jewellery Quarter tomorrow then?" Me: "If that's ok?" Him: "Silly girl, I love you!"
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He's a happy bunny, I'm a happy bunny.
Life is good and Twitter rocks!
Recently, as well as the collection of FakeF1 Drivers a few real ones have joined in the fun.
Nelson Piquet Jr joined back on the 5th of June and started quite a few people learning Portuguese (although he dual tweets in English too) and made a lot of people smile with his photographs.
Then Rubens Barrichello turned up on the 23rd of June (possibly converted by Nelson?) and also posted amusing photographs (especially this one).
Recently Nelson decided to give away a signed visor to one of his followers if he reached 20,000 followers before the German GP.
On Friday he hit that target and asked people to tweet him what they would do with the visor if they won it.
So I sent him a message that said:
@NelsonPiquet I'll give the visor to my fiance, in exchange for the engagement ring he's been promising me for the last 6 months.
(Quite a few of my Twitter buddies loved it, but I didn't mention it to Anthony...)
The competition closed tonight, and then I got this tweet...
@Petronella won the visor! @pedrorq and @D_Broka, the other 2 prizes!
OH. MY. GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*ahem*
So I'm shaking like crazy and then Anthony wanders in.
Me "So guess what, I won @NelsonPiquet's visor!" Him "Brilliant!" Me "But you should see what won it for me" Him *reads screen* silence...!
(He still hasn't said anything, he's gone out for a smoke...) He's come back in...
Him: "Well then. I guess we're going to the Jewellery Quarter tomorrow then?" Me: "If that's ok?" Him: "Silly girl, I love you!"
************************************
He's a happy bunny, I'm a happy bunny.
Life is good and Twitter rocks!
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